Green Power Western Digital WDH1U5000WN 500GB My Book Essential External USB 2.0 Hard Drive

from c0barnes

The hard drive functions as expected. I formatted the drive to NTFS for larger file sizes, which took several hours. The only drawbacks I've found are that the drive is a little noisier than it should be when accessed and it takes a few seconds to spin up when it hasn't been used for a while. Ove...

from nfilly

So far this product works great. It was very easy to use. I didn't bother using the software that comes with it based on other reviews and the fact that I did what I needed to without it. The price was very competative. It was cheaper than Best Buy or Circuit City. I checked Amazon and found one ...

from KZROL

I use this product every day, and I find it very useful for storing data that I can't fit on my laptop when I don't use that data away from my computer desk. The lack of instructions was not a problem for me because the hardrive is very easy to use.

from Nurmind

I bought this drive to work with my laptop (macbook pro) and it works great with leopard. I have had no problems and I feel like it was a great purchase for the size and quality. Note- I have owned for less than 2 months. It works right out of the box with my mac, however for my purposes I refor...

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Getting this much storage for no more than I paid for this device is a great thing. One note for those of you who might have individual files that are larger than 4 Gig you will need to reformat this drive using NTFS.